Trina's Kitchen: Again, read Hersh

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Again, read Hersh

Let me echo this:

You should read Sy Hersh’s latest article, spread the word, and demand that your local paper write about his expose. https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/29/sy-hersh-exposer-of-my-lai-and-abu-ghraib-strikes-again-exposing-us-lies-about-alleged-assad-sarin-attack/ …

And also check out my son's two posts:

The Goody Whore

The censoring of Seymour Hersh

Both deal with the refusal to cover Seymour Hersh's important report.

It's amazing how hard they work to suppress the truth.

This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot" for Thursday:

Thursday, June 29, 2017. The Mosul Slog continues, despite claims from some.

Right now, there a lot of claims like this:

‏Verified account @PressTV

Iraq state TV announces Mosul liberation, ISIL fall 

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So the Iraqi government's forces now control Mosul?

No.

ALJAZEERA reports, "Iraqi authorities expect the battle to end in the coming days as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group has been bottled up in a handful of neighbourhoods of the Old City."

That reality doesn't interfere with some.

Self-styled fortune teller Liz Sly takes the time to Tweet:

‏Verified account @LizSly

Reuters: Iraqi forces have captured the Nuri Mosque where Baghdadi declared the ISIS caliphate. The battle for Mosul is as good as over.

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You really have to marvel over that nonsense.

Liz Sly is paid to report what is.

She clearly doesn't grasp the job.

She'd rather offer pleasing words.

Grown ups don't need fairy tales, they need the truth.

The truth is the battle continues.

But the truth is tossed to the side by the immature.

That would include those who lap at the crotches of military men (they themselves haven't usually served ever).

Amin Mursal‏ @amin_mursal 14 minutes ago

#BREAKING
 
MOSUL LIBERATED
#ISIS has fallen in #Mosul 
Lions of Iraqi forces retake the city of Mosul from ISIS completely.
#Iraq 

Those are the heroes?

I would think the people of Mosul who managed to survive three years of being occupied by the Islamic State would be the heroes.

You know, the people the Iraqi government abandoned for over two years?

The ones the Iraqi government made no effort to assist or help?

Reality: It's day 249 of The Mosul Slog.

It could end today.

It might not.

But as of right now, it continues.

ALJAZEERA offers this map:

‏Verified account @AJEnglish

As the Iraq army seizes ruins of Mosul's al-Nuri mosque from ISIL, we look at who controls what in the city aje.io/v4p3

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More reality: once the Islamic State no longer controls any of Mosul, the focus returns to the failures of the Iraqi state which are many.

Harlan Ullman and Arnaud de Borchgrave (UPI) note that "the Sunni-Shia schism has not been reconciled. Nor have relations between Baghdad and Kurdistan been resolved."

The Islamic State has allowed many to ignore the problems with the government.

Here's another reality:

ICRC‏Verified account @ICRC 4 hours ago

500,000 people used to live in Ramadi, #Iraq. Fighting left 80% of the city destroyed.

Inside war in cities: bit.ly/2sjX1bD

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Maybe Liz Sly could take a break from palm reading and report on what passes for post-liberation in Iraq?

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